- From: Steve Runyon <s.runyon@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:44:52 -0500
Sorry for being the dunce here, but is anybody saying otherwise? Whereas XML _requires_ that you close every tag, HTML5 _should allow_ you to close any tag. I agree with what was said previously about considering something like '<select /></select>' invalid, but if somebody's suggesting that something like '<img src="..." />' or '<br />' should also be invalid, I disagree. Validators and UAs should accept singleton tags _with or without_ the self-closer. Am I totally misunderstanding or missing the point here? On 11/29/06, Leons Petrazickis <leons.petrazickis at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <sayrer at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/29/06, Robert Sayre <sayrer at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Ok, I have submitted a bug report. > > > > > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3406 > > > > > > Let's see what happens. > > > > Well, that didn't seem too effective. :/ > > This rigmarole is going to repeat on every site that has converted to > XHTML sent as text/html. People are emotionally invested in the idea > of trailing slashes. Websites have complex codebases, and going > through them removing trailing slashes on singleton elements would be > very hard. > > They've already reaped all the benefits of XHTML -- cleaner, more > readable, more maintainable code. There's no incentive for them to > agree with you. This is a minor point that we need to give to them. > > The very idea of HTML5 is to not demand that the Web be scrapped and > rewritten. We need the people who have rewritten all their pages so > that they validate on the W3C validator -- they have the fire and the > zeal and the will to spread our format. We need to make the migration > from invalid XHTML to valid HTML5 very, very easy for them. We can't > require them to dig through PHP spaghetti. And that means that, no > matter how it's achieved, <br/> needs to be valid HTML5. > -- > Leons Petrazickis > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061129/2cb31841/attachment.htm>
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